Pasting

Hi, I'm a total newb to this board and to Photoshop so I'm probably going to embarass myself with how easy this question is to answer!
Everytime I copy and paste from one image into another, all I seem to get is a big white area the same shape as the image I tried to paste. Where am I going wrong?
Thanks in advance, Ashley

You might be on a white background layer when you do the copy/paste stuff.

Make sure you have the layer you want to copy active and highlighted in the layers pallet.


If it's not that, can't think of anything else that would cause this.

Have you tried just dragging the layer, containing the image you want to copy, direct to the new image?